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Monday, February 20, 2012

Carrot Cupcakes (with Cream Cheese Icing)

This recipe hasn't remodeled for cup-caking purposes - so, if you wanted to make a full sized cake, or muffins? all you need to do is a adjust the cooking times and you're good to go!

The recipe is adapted from the one Moll Katzen features in her Moosewood Cookbook I've played around with the quantity of sweetener, the kinds of spices and halved the recipe overall. Finally I topped these little babies off with my delicious cream cheese icing (which I'll feature in another post...) and little icing carrots (I'd meant to use the walnuts I'd omitted from the batter - but I got carried away!)

Aren't they the cutest?!

I took them with me on a picnic where they were very well received. Flavoursome, moist and not too sweet (a trick of that mysterious icing) because they contain both wholemeal flour AND carrots they've got to be good for you, right?

A delicious cross section...

If you've got the stuff with which you can bake in your flat anyway - there's nothing particularly prohibitive about this recipe... if you're not living in a baking friendly flat - try these when you get home!

If you have to give the cream cheese icing a miss (not always a flat friendly ingredient) they're almost as good on their own - or a simple drizzle of lemon juice and icing sugar would be a suitable substitute.

You'll need:

To set your oven to 180 degrees C, and line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.

1 comment:

Thank you Kat, for this very good recipe ! I enjoyed to prepare it and we found your carrot cupcakes very, very good ! They were my first cupcakes and so, they were not as beautifull as yours, but they really taste very good. As I haven't try to do cupcakes before and because I didn't know that cupcakes exist... I would like to tell you thank you again because you opened a new way for cooking ! I hadn't all the different things you used in your recipe, so I changed some ingredients. And I explain that (and how doing cupcakes for the first time with a recipe writting in english... a very great adventure) on our new blog (my sister's and mine). So, if you would like to see how much I was inexperienced in cupcakes, please, have a look on our blog. You'll be welcome. And sorry for my english because it's not my native language.Thank you again. I think I will try some of your other recipes...